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Edith's Streets

This blog records notes about London (and Greater London) streets - what the buildings are, what the background is. These pages have been compiled over many years and from many sources - its not intended to copy from other people's work.Each post represents a square on the Ordnance Survey grid -and the vast majority of information is culled from map based source material - Ordnance Survey, A/Z, etc.

On some inner city squares only a quarter of each square is done because of the volume of material involved

Please add your comments and corrections - I am sure there are lots of mistakes - and my idea is to build up a correct record interactively

Red- it is (hopefully) there nowBlue - its interesting but its goneNo colour, same as the text - don't know. needs to be verified

Saturday, 8 August 2015

Riverside - north end of Tilbury Docks

Riverside north of the river and east of the tower
Northern Tilbury Dock.
TQ 63527 75766

This post only covers sites north of the Thames

Part of Tilbury Docks including the grain termimal and various associated milling businesses and other activitiesPost to the south Tilbury NessPost to the west Northfleet Terminal
Tilbury DockExtension dock. This square only covers the northern part of the 1960s extension dock. This was built between 1963–1966 running north from Main Dock for nearly a mile. The main contractors were Howard and MowlemPluto. The site of the dock extension is said to have been where Pluto was assembled. This Pipe Line Under the Ocean was for pumping fuel oils from England to France, post D-Day 1944. It was assembled, welded and wound on to floating bobbins, called Conundrum, which were launched here.Rail links. Internal dock rail lines run from a junction with the main line railway to the north east and travelled round the extension dock, Grain Terminal. This was built in 1969 on the riverside and was at the time the largest in Europe. It can handle just under a million and a half tonnes a year serving both exports and imports to local and regional flour mills. It is supported by a state-of-the-art computerized operation and high-speed loading facilities. It is approved for handling organic products by the Organic Food Federation and has storage for 120 million tons with more than 200 separate silos.Grain Terminal jetty.Allied Mills. Sunblest Mill provides flour to Allied bakeriesThames Flour Mills. Operated by Rank Hovis